The HAMK

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The HAMK Örch Orchestra

• A team of students from
• HAMK University of Applied Sciences and
• TUCN Technical University of Cluj-Napoca

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HAMK Örch Orchestra

• Level of participation
• Orchestra Play
• Robots playing together and under guidence of a
  conductor

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HAMK Örch Orchestra

• Our equipment
• 1. Flute robot (C-modern)
• 2. Piano robot (keyboard)
• 3. Conductor unit (tempo control)
• 4. A central control unit

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About the team
HAMK Örch Orchestra

• An international team of 3 nationalities.
• - Finland, Romania and Greece
• Fluent co-operation between universities by
  exchange programs.

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Compliance to contest rules
HAMK Örch Orchestra

• Assingment to build embedded systems to play some
  real instruments
• System retrieves notes from the network and from
  FTP-server

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Embedded System
HAMK Örch Orchestra
WEB
Image recognitionunit (IRU)
I.P. address
WLAN
serial
Control unit(CU)
Player units
MIDI
MIU
Each unit is an individual embedded system.
Robot 3
MIU
I2C
Robot 2
Robot 1
I2C
MIDI Interpreterunit (MIU)
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Control Unit
HAMK Örch Orchestra

• Functions and features of CU
• Retrieves an XML-file describing note files for
  each instrument
• Converts the note file to MIDI format
• Sends note information on a standard MIDI-line to
  player units
• Linux operating system

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The Flutist
HAMK Örch Orchestra

• Based on The HAMK Örch Player 2007
• Runner up in 2007 contest
• Executed on Digilent Nexys 200 test platform
  (Xilinx Spartan3 FPGA)
• Intelligence by VHDL-coding
• Converts MIDI-signals (notes) to finger movement
  and blow control
• Controls the robot with attached custom made
  Power-Drive-Board

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The Pianist
HAMK Örch Orchestra

• New custom made electronics
• Atmel ATMega16L controller
• MIDI in and through features
• Solenoids act as robot fingers

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Biggest sponsors
The HAMK Örch Player

• EIS Electronics Engineering Sociaty
• HAMK University of Applied Sciences
• Cluj-Napoca technical University, Romania
• Vansco Electronics Ltd
• Mitron Oy
• Norgren Oy
• Elefors study and teaching factory
• InnoSteel Factory
• Large number of other companies

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The HAMK Örch Player

• Artemis Artefact Orchestra -kilpailu 2007
• Kilpailumatka ja kilpailu

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